Pharaoh's wife and her servants find baby Moses in the Nile. Illustration from the Persian Jami' al-tawarikh
Al-Qasas (Arabic: القصص, ’al-qaṣaṣ; meaning: The Story) is the 28th chapter (sūrah) of the Qur'an with 88 verses (āyāt).
According to Ibn Kathir's commentary, the chapter takes its name from verse 25 in which the word Al-Qasas occurs. Lexically, qasas means to relate events in their proper sequence. Thus, from the viewpoint of the meaning too, this word can be a suitable title for this Surah, for in it the detailed story of the Prophet Moses has been related, also it includes story of Qarun from verse 76 to verse 83, explaining how Qarun was proud of himself thinking that his huge wealth earned by his own science, denying the grace of God on him, and later God destroyed him with his wealth underground.
86-88 Muhammad exhorted to steadfastness in the faith of Islam [1]
References
^Wherry, Elwood Morris (1896). A Complete Index to Sale's Text, Preliminary Discourse, and Notes. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, and Co. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Further reading
'Athamina, Khalil (1992). "Al-Qasas: Its Emergence, Religious Origin and Its Socio-Political Impact on Early Muslim Society". Studia Islamica (76): 53–74. doi:10.2307/1595660. ISSN 0585-5292. JSTOR 1595660.
Ghafour, Abdul Ghafoor Aghlam Abdul (19 March 2019). "Temporal ambiguities In the Holy Quran at the son of the jamaeat (733) Explanatory study (From Surah Al-Qasas to another Quran". Islamic Sciences Journal. 27 (1): 78–111. doi:10.25130/islam.v27i1.96 (inactive 31 January 2024). ISSN 2073-1159.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024 (link)
External links
Q28:12, 50+ translations, islamawakened.com
Quran 28 Quran.com
Works related to The Holy Qur'an (Maulana Muhammad Ali)/28. The Narrative at Wikisource